Possible memory leak in 1.7.9p2?

Pavel Curtis (pavel@parc.xerox.com)
Sun, 10 Dec 1995 22:09:56 PST


Quinn writes:
>This is the same problem I mentioned months ago: while() loops are apparently
> not freeing their variables before re-using them, so they effectively become
> a hole into which one may dump megs and megs of useless data.

I don't believe that this is the source of your problem, since I believe
that while() loops don't do anything differently than normal variable
assignment.  I will try to reproduce the leak using the measurement task,
though.

        Pavel